Bill Text: NY A02138 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits possession of an image of a minor victim by child sex offenders; prohibits any other person from disseminating to such person any image of a child victim of such sex offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A02138 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02138-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2138

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal law, in relation to prohibiting child sex
          offenders from possessing images of their victims

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 263.35 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 263.35 Criminal possession of an image of a minor victim.
     4    A person is guilty of criminal possession  of  an  image  of  a  minor
     5  victim when he or she:
     6    1.  has  been convicted of a sex offense as defined in subdivision two
     7  or three of section one hundred sixty-eight-a  of  the  correction  law,
     8  where  the  victim  of  such  offense  was  a minor, and such person has
     9  possession of one or more images, recordings, or any other depictions of
    10  the victim or victims of such sex offense; or
    11    2. knowingly disseminates to a person convicted of a  sex  offense  as
    12  defined in subdivision two or three of section one hundred sixty-eight-a
    13  of the correction law, where the victim of such offense was a minor, one
    14  or  more  images,  recordings,  or any other depictions of the victim or
    15  victims of such sex offense.
    16    Criminal possession of an image of a minor victim is a class E felony.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    18  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05658-01-3